Religion Past Present

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015077649674

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Author : Simon Coleman,John Elsner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674667662

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Pilgrimage by Simon Coleman,John Elsner Pdf

From the Great Panathenaea of ancient Greece to the hajj of today, people of all religions and cultures have made sacred journeys to confirm their faith and their part in a larger identity. This book is a fascinating guide through the vast and varied cultural territory such pilgrimages have covered across the ages. The first book to look at the phenomenon and experience of pilgrimage through the multiple lenses of history, religion, sociology, anthropology, and art history, this sumptuously illustrated volume explores the full richness and range of sacred travel as it maps the cultural imagination. The authors consider pilgrimage as a physical journey through time and space, but also as a metaphorical passage resonant with meaning on many levels. It may entail a ritual transformation of the pilgrim's inner state or outer status; it may be a quest for a transcendent goal; it may involve the healing of a physical or spiritual ailment. Through folktales, narratives of the crusades, and the firsthand accounts of those who have made these journeys; through descriptions and pictures of the rituals, holy objects, and sacred architecture they have encountered, as well as the relics and talismans they have carried home, Pilgrimage evokes the physical and spiritual landscape these seekers have traveled. In its structure, the book broadly moves from those religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--that cohere around a single canonical text to those with a multiplicity of sacred scriptures, like Hinduism and Buddhism. Juxtaposing the different practices and experiences of pilgrimage in these contexts, this book reveals the common structures and singular features of sacred travel from ancient times to our own.

Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Goddess religion
ISBN : 1577662733

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The Book of the Goddess, Past and Present by Carl Olson Pdf

"This comprehensive text, highly acclaimed as the premier sourcebook on goddesses, introduces students of religion to the various manifestations and complex nature of the goddess. Often a stranger to contemporary devotees of monotheistic religions, the goddess forces the recognition of female power, which can transform deeply held beliefs. The recent renewed interest in goddesses and the rise of feminist scholarship are addressed in this well-chosen collection of essays, written by an international group of scholars. The book elucidates the diverse religious cultures and periods of history in which goddesses have played an important role by providing examples of ancient and modern goddesses in Eastern and Western religious traditions, in major world and tribal religions, and in living religions and those no longer practiced."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Esben Andreasen,Ian Reader,Finn Stefansson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134238583

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Japanese Religions Past and Present by Esben Andreasen,Ian Reader,Finn Stefansson Pdf

Each of the eight chapters deals with a specific topic, such as Shinto, Buddhism, the new religions, and Christianity; there is an introduction that outlines the subject to be considered followed by a series of readings.

Author : Clint Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Spirituality
ISBN : 1536157139

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Spirituality by Clint Baldwin Pdf

In Spirituality: Past, Present and Future Perspectives, the hermeneutic pluralism of religious and spiritual healing and its evangelical roots are studied by means of the conceptual systems of religious anthropology and medical anthropology.The next chapter analyzes the relationship between spirituality and psychological well-being. The athors focus on agnostics and undecided people who lie between theists as certain believers and atheists as certain non-believers.The authors also assess how spirituality in the African American community influences end-of-life care decisions.In his The Sea of Fertility tetralogy of novels, Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima outlines a philosophy of life and death that bears profoundly transgressive spiritual implications. This compilation discusses how, through his blending of Buddhist notions relating to reincarnation and the insubstantiality of all phenomena, Mishima constructs what amounts to a new spirituality committed to immanence.In the penultimate chapter, the concept of dark spirituality is discussed through what Francois Laruelle calls the "lointain", an unnameable, ineffable "distance" without measure. This concept is then examined through Bonnie ʻPrince' Billy's musical work and how his song, "Black," defines blackness in terms of irreducible alterity.Lastly, while Bhoodan accentuated upon land donation from a resource ownership perspective, Vasudhaiva Kuṭumbakam based land acquisition stresses upon land transfer from the stakeholder concept. Implications for research and practice are discussed in the closing chapter.

Author : Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher : Religion Past and Present
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129809260

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Religion Past & Present: Bia-Chr by Hans Dieter Betz Pdf

Truly worldwide in its coverage, this English version of the 4th edition of the RGG, makes this gold standard of encyclopedias accessible to the English-speaking world. Taking into account the latest research developments, it offers a wide-ranging and multi-denominational approach to all aspects of the study of religion and theology.

Author : Lawrence A. Babb
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780466187

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Religion in India by Lawrence A. Babb Pdf

An introduction to South Asian religions for non-specialist readers and undergraduate students.

Author : Hans Kung
Publisher : ONEWorld Publications
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000116106547

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Islam by Hans Kung Pdf

For more than two decades the world religions have been a central topic forans Kung. In books which have inspired millions throughout human society, heas pioneered work towards a new dialogue between cultures. In thisxtraordinary comprehensive book, he gives an in-depth account of Islam.escribing paradigm shifts in its 1400-year history, outlining the variousurrents and surveying the positions of Islam on the urgent questions of theay, few present-day theologians could have written such a complete analysis.n a world where understanding of global politics requires a knowledge ofslam, this is a perfect place to start.

Author : Andrew P Rogers,Nicola Slee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367535386

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Celebrating the Past, Present and Future of British and Irish Practical Theology by Andrew P Rogers,Nicola Slee Pdf

This volume is a celebration of practical theology in Britain and Ireland in all its inventiveness and variety on the occasion of BIAPT's twenty-fifth birthday.

Author : Gregory F. Barz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004334328

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Performing Religion by Gregory F. Barz Pdf

Performing Religion considers issues related to Tanzanian kwayas [KiSwahili, “choirs”], musical communities most often affiliated with Christian churches, and the music they make, known as nyimbo za kwaya [choir songs] or muziki wa kwaya [choir music]. The analytical approach adopted in this text focusing on the communities of kwaya is one frequently used in the fields of ethnomusicology, religious studies, culture studies, and philosophy for understanding diversified social processes-consciousness. By invoking consciousness an attempt is made to represent the ways seemingly disparate traditions coexist, thrive, and continue within contemporary kwaya performance. An East African kwaya is a community that gathers several times each week to define its spirituality musically. Members of kwayas come together to sing, to pray, to support individual members in times of need, and to both learn and pass along new and inherited faith traditions. Kwayas negotiate between multiple musical traditions or just as often they reject an inherited musical system while others may continue to engage musical repertoires from both Europe and Africa. Contemporary kwayas comfortably coexist in the urban musical soundscape of coastal Dar es Salaam along with jazz dance bands, taarab ensembles, ngoma performance groups, Hindi film music, rap, reggae, and the constant influx of recorded American and European popular musics. This ethnography calls into question terms frequently used to draw tight boundaries around the study of the arts in African expressive religious cultures. Such divisions of the arts present well-defended boundaries and borders that are not sufficient for understanding the change, adaptation, preservation, and integration that occur within a Tanzanian kwaya. Boundaries break down within the everyday performance of East African kwayas, such as Kwaya ya Upendo [“The Love Choir”] in Dar es Salaam, as repertoires, traditions, histories, and cultures interact within a performance of social identity.

Author : Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing Company
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824508793

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The History and Future of Faith by Robert S. Ellwood Pdf

Looks at the origin and history of religion, discusses the secular movement, and describes future trends

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : UOM:39015064885380

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Muslim-Christian Interactions by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Langage et langues - Étude et enseignement (Supérieur) - États-Unis - Histoire
ISBN : 0268033579

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Language, Religion, Knowledge by James Turner Pdf

"James Turner's diptych of interrelated essays--which link carefully wrought episodes in the nineteenth-century past of American higher education with future prospects for the role of religiously rooted inquiry in academic research--shed considerable and often unexpected light on the historically contingent disciplinary distinctions, epistemological assumptions, and research practices of university life today. Turner is not simply a first-rate intellectual historian, but a first-rate intellectual." --Brad Gregory, Stanford University "Ever since Cardinal Newman wrote The Idea of a University and George Bernard Shaw quipped that a Catholic university is a contradiction in terms, scholars have quarreled about the relation between knowledge and belief. In Language, Religion, Knowledge one of the most erudite of American historians explores topics ranging from the intricate connections between philology and historicism to the ironic consequences of secularization for higher education. All readers will benefit from pondering James Turner's provocative ideas about the role religion has played--and the role Catholicism should play today--in educational institutions and in American culture more broadly." --James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University "The chapters of Language, Religion, Knowledge measure up to the very high standards of clear, expressive, and accessible prose that is a hallmark of James Turner's writing. This book could become a leading volume in the general consideration of religion and the intellectual life." --Mark Noll, Wheaton College

Author : Hent de Vries
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823227242

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Religion by Hent de Vries Pdf

What do we talk about when we talk about "religion"? Is it an array of empirical facts about historical human civilizations? Or is religion what is in essence unpredictable--perhaps the very emergence of the new? In what ways are the legacies of religion--its powers, words, things, and gestures--reconfiguring themselves as the elementary forms of life in the twenty-first century? Given the Latin roots of the word religion and its historical Christian uses, what sense, if any, does it make to talk about "religion" in other traditions? Where might we look for common elements that would enable us to do so? Has religion as an overarching concept lost all its currency, or does it ineluctably return--sometimes in unexpected ways--the moment we attempt to do without it? This book explores the difficulties and double binds that arise when we ask "What is religion?" Offering a marvelously rich and diverse array of perspectives, it begins the task of rethinking "religion" and "religious studies" in a contemporary world. Opening essays on the question "What is religion?" are followed by clusters exploring the relationships among religion, theology, and philosophy and the links between religion, politics, and law. Pedagogy is the focus of the following section. Religion is then examined in particular contexts, from classical times to the present Pentacostal revival, leading into an especially rich set of essays on religion, materiality, and mediatization. The final section grapples with the ever-changing forms that "religion" is taking, such as spirituality movements and responses to the ecological crisis. Featuring the work of leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines, traditions, and cultures, Religion: Beyond a Concept will help set the agenda for religious studies for years to come. It is the first of five volumes in a collection entitled The Future of the Religious Past, the fruit of a major international research initiative funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : OCLC:921804107

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Religion Past & Present by Anonim Pdf